Research Guides: iSchool Literature and Systematic Reviews: Starting Points for Both Reviews

Research Strategies

Constructing a Search Worksheet This worksheet is a useful tool for mapping concepts and potential searches prior to starting the search in a database.
Constructing a Search Worksheet
Use Word to add your search terms online and save.

Starting Points in Identifying Sources

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text Journal articles covering library and information science topics, such as literacy, cataloging and classification, and library-related legislation and more.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts Index and abstracts to journal articles, books, research reports, and proceedings covering libraries, information science, technology, information management, and more.
Information Science Journals on library and information studies, including data processing, metadata architectures, information infrastructure, and publishing. Provided by NOVELNY.
ACM Digital Library Conference proceedings, articles, books, reports, videos, and other publications from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Searches can be expanded to include non-ACM resources.
Scopus This link opens in a new window Abstracts and citations of journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Abstract and citation database covering numerous fields in arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Includes access to Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Biosis Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, Essential Science Indicators, Index Chemicus / KCI Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Russian Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Social Sciences Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Zoological Record.

Additional Databases

Additional databases are located in the Library & Information Science research guide and the Information Management & Technology research guide.

Research guides for other disciplines are available here.

Databases A-Z This link includes all SU LIbraries databases. It includes drop down filtering options by subject and content type.

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